Crime

Brutal Bar Assault on Vietnam Veteran: New Details Emerge

ST. THOMAS — More details have emerged in the assault case against Richard Lazarus, who was arrested after video footage purporting to show him beating up an elderly man was shown to police.  The probable cause fact sheet, in which a law enforcement officer recounts the sequence of events leading to a suspect’s arrest, indicates that it was the evening of Monday April 10 when the arresting officer was made aware of a video circulating on social media, and apprised that a report had been filed about the incident that had been recorded.  The officer watched the video in question, which showed a woman and “light skinned male” assaulting a Caucasian man, who was on the ground. First, the woman is reportedly seen punching and then stamping on the man. The light skinned male — subsequently identified as Lazarus — then shrugs off the restraining hold of another male companion and is seen joining in on the attack, beating the man on the ground with a chain that had an attached object. Lazaru...